Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil.
PLoS One. 2022 Aug 29;17(8):e0273291. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273291. eCollection 2022.
In the 21st century, we still need to talk about gender inequality in science. Even with the sharp growth of studies on this theme over the last decades, we are still trying to convince our peers that diversity matters and, if embraced, makes better science. Part of this drawback can be related to the need for data to support effective proposals to change the academic scenario. In order to close some of those gaps, we here analyze 1) the profile of Brazilian researchers based on production, impact, and membership to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2) participation in the Editorial boards of Brazilian journals dedicated to Entomology, and, 3) the academic scenario of Brazilian Entomology focusing on the sex of the first and last authors in peer-reviewed international publications related to Entomology. We aimed to provide a deeper look on the Brazilian Entomology scenario and to expand the amount of data availability to stimulate and foster a mind-change in the current academic structure. We performed scientometric searches and analysis using different platforms and found that the number and impact of the publications by female researchers, as observed by relative numbers, are not less than that of males. Despite that, female researchers are less represented at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and editorial boards, reinforcing the lack of women recognition in science. Thus, we observe that some narratives related to the productivity gap can be misleading to a perpetuation of our internal and structural biases. We here expanded data from a previous paper where we scrutinized the Brazilian Entomology scenario and discussed the patches and systems that maintain gender gap in science.
在 21 世纪，我们仍然需要讨论科学领域中的性别不平等问题。尽管过去几十年中关于这个主题的研究急剧增长，但我们仍在努力说服同行，多样性很重要，如果得到包容，会产生更好的科学成果。部分原因可能与需要数据来支持有效提案以改变学术环境有关。为了缩小这些差距，我们在这里分析了 1）基于产量、影响力和巴西科学院成员身份的巴西研究人员的概况，2）参与专注于昆虫学的巴西期刊编辑委员会的情况，以及 3）巴西昆虫学的学术情况，重点关注在同行评审的与昆虫学相关的国际出版物中，第一作者和最后作者的性别。我们旨在更深入地了解巴西昆虫学的现状，并扩大数据的可用性，以激发和促进当前学术结构的思维转变。我们使用不同的平台进行了科学计量搜索和分析，发现从相对数量上看，女性研究人员的出版物数量和影响力并不低于男性。尽管如此，女性研究人员在巴西科学院和编辑委员会中的代表性仍然较低，这加剧了科学界对女性的认可不足。因此，我们观察到一些与生产力差距相关的说法可能会产生误导，从而导致我们内部和结构性偏见的持续存在。在这里，我们扩展了之前一篇论文中的数据，该论文详细研究了巴西昆虫学的现状，并讨论了维持科学界性别差距的补丁和系统。
